Eccentric Flower:199808/detaching from myself
From Eccentric Flower
«August 1998 «Eccentric Flower
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one august ninety eight two p m detaching from myself Dreamed last night that I was entangled in some sort of tumbleweed like bit of dried brush. I was walking along a trail, at an overlook, and noticed I was dragging this thing along with me. Reached town to pull it loose. One of its thin branches was wrapped around my leg. I pulled, and it slid across my skin, being dragged into unwinding as if I was pulling it from my flesh. But I was still tangled. Now another branch had somehow caught my other leg. Or maybe it had been tangled the whole time and I hadn't noticed? By the time I pulled that loose, my arm was tangled, and so on. I kept pulling these stems loose, and gradually I realized that the tumbleweed thing - this ball of tangles - was actually some part of me somehow which I was trying to detach from myself. About the time I succeeded in detaching it completely, I woke up. For about five minutes I could still feel the traceries on my legs and arms where I had detached the weed. It was good. © columbine |
